I am running up-to-date Jessie (8.5) with unattended-upgrades to provide security upgrades. But it seems that its attempts to restart services fail.
Early this morning unattended-upgrades upgraded "libexpat1". At the end of unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log, I see: >Services to be restarted: >Skipping dbus.service... >systemctl restart apache2.service cron.service >Log ended: 2016-06-08 04:36:36 However, apache2 and cron have not been restarted - they've been running since June 5: >root 622 0.0 0.0 27504 2860 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 >/usr/sbin/cron -f >root 748 0.0 0.1 80220 4928 ? Ss Jun05 0:02 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start >www-data 751 0.0 0.1 828208 5908 ? Sl Jun05 0:13 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start >www-data 752 0.0 0.1 500520 4688 ? Sl Jun05 0:13 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start If I manually execute the exact same systemctl command that unattended-upgrades said that it used, it works fine: # systemctl restart apache2.service cron.service Now they have actually been restarted: >root 27126 0.0 0.0 27504 2856 ? Ss 22:04 0:00 >/usr/sbin/cron -f >root 27162 0.0 0.1 80220 5020 ? Ss 22:04 0:00 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start >www-data 27165 0.0 0.1 369368 4452 ? Sl 22:04 0:00 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start >www-data 27166 0.0 0.1 369368 4452 ? Sl 22:04 0:00 >/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start I can find nothing in the logs about problems at that time (2016-06-08 04:36). Can someone tell me what I've done wrong? -- Jesper Dybdal, Denmark. http://www.dybdal.dk (in Danish).
